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Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadWith the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of The Brothers Karamazov the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Pevear and Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of Dostoevsky's classic novel that presents a clear insight into thi... [Read More]
This collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of Dostoevsky's key works and shows him to be equally adept at the short story as with the novel. Exploring many of the same themes as in his longer works, these small masterpieces move from the tender and romantic White Nights, an archetypal nineteenth-century morality tale of pathos and... [Read More]
As featured on PBS's The Great American ReadAn event to be celebrated, a “rare Dostoesvsky translation” (William Mills Todd III, Harvard University) that fully captures the literary achievements of the original.Published to great acclaim and fierce controversy in 1866, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment has left an indelible mark on glo... [Read More]
Winner of the Pen/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation PrizeThe Brothers Karamasov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons—the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; an... [Read More]
Offers a collection of the Russian author's shorter fiction that features both his best known works and less familiar writing, including early sketches that reveal the development of his style and his understanding of psychology.
The shorter works of one of the world's greatest writers, including The Gambler and Notes from UndergroundThe short works of Dostoevsky exist in the very large shadow of his astonishing longer novels, but they too are among literature's most revered works. The Gambler chronicles Dostoevsky's own addiction, which he eventually overcame. Many have ar... [Read More]
Presents a chronologically arranged collection of stories by the Russian author, including "White Nights," "A Gentle Creature," and "The Honest Thief," and contains biographical information and a reading group guide.
The two years before he wrote Crime and Punishment (1866) had been bad ones for Dostoyevsky. His wife and brother had died; the magazine he and his brother had started, Epoch, collapsed under its load of debt; and he was threatened with debtor's prison. With an advance that he managed to wangle for an unwritten novel, he fled to Wiesbaden, hoping... [Read More]
Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horried Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in pre-revo... [Read More]
DVD NTSC Region: ALL 2 DVD Set DVD release: 2009 Sound format(s): Dolby Digital 5.1 Language(s): Russian Subtitles: English Format: 4:3, Color Director: Yurij Moroz Cast: Aleksandr Golubev, Sergej Gorobchenko, Sergej Koltakov, Pavel Derevyanko, Anatolij Belyj, Victoria Isakova, Elena Lyadova 12 episodes 19th century. There are passions between the ... [Read More]
A troubled young man commits the perfect crime: the murder of a vile pawnbroker whom no one will miss. Raskolnikov is desperate for money, but he convinces himself that his motive for the murder is to benefit mankind. So begins a tragic novel that illuminates the eternal struggle between human emotions and desire, and the harsh laws of ethics and j... [Read More]
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s masterful translation of The Idiot is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky in English.After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky set out in The Idiot to portray a man of pure innocen... [Read More]
This book contains the complete novels of Fyodor Dostoyevsky in the chronological order of their original publication.- Poor Folk- The Double- Netochka Nezvanova- The Village of Stepanchikovo- Uncle's Dream- The Insulted and the Injured- The House of the Dead- Notes from Underground- Crime and Punishment- The Gambler- The Idiot- The Eternal Husband... [Read More]
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (11 November 1821 - 9 February 1881) was a Russian writer of novels, short stories and essays. Dostoyevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social and spiritual context of 19th-century Russia. Although Dostoyevsky began writing books in the mid-1840s, his most remembered are from h... [Read More]
The perfect in-joke for fans of Dostoevsky and his classic novel, The Idiot. This list t-shirt features the names of the main characters, Rogozhin & Nastasya & Aglaya & Prince Myshkin, in white lettering. See who else gets it. For readers and book lovers who appreciate Russian literature, the philosophical novel, and works like Crime and Punishment... [Read More]
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